The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1887-12-30

OF the Egyptian Amenartas. whom
thou dtdst love; for by her arts she held
thy heart, and her I could not Stay as but
now I slew the woman, for she was too
strong for me. In my haste and bitter an.
ger I slew thee, andnow for all these DAYS
have I lamcnted thee, and waited for thy
eoming. And thou hast come, and none
cam stand between thee and inc, and of q
truth now for death I will give thee life
not life eternal, for that none CAN give, but
life and youth that shall endure for tfious-
ends upon thousands OF years, and with It
p0mp and power and wealth, Gnjall things
that are good and beautiful, such as have
been to no man before thcc nor shall be tc
any man who comes after. And now one
thing more and thou shalt rest and make
ready for the day of thy new birth. Thou
seest this body which was thine own. For
Ill these centuries 1t hath been my comfort
end my companion, but now I need It no
more. for I have thy living presence, and
u can but serve to stir up memories of that
which I had fafn forgot. Let 1t, there
tore, 60 buck to the dust from which kept
Il.
"Beholdi Ihave prepared against this
happy hour!" and going to the other shelf,
q stone ledge, which, she said, had served
her for q bed, she took from 1t a large Wit
Filled double-handled vase, the mouth of
which was tied up with q bladder. This
she looscd, and then, having bent down
md gently kissed the white forehead Of
eho dead man, she undid the vase, and
sprtnkled the contents carefully over the
form. taking, I observed, tho greatest pre-
cautions against any drop of them touch
Ing Us or herself, and then poured out what
remained OF the liquid upon the chest and
head. Instantly q dense vapor arose, and
the cave was filed with choking fumes
that prevented Us from seeing anything
while the deadly acid (for I presume 1t was
some tremendous preparation Of that sort)
did its work. From tho spot where the
body lay came fierce fixing and cracking
4Dund, which. ceased however, before the
1nDes had cleared away. At Inst they
Uere Ill gone, except o little cloud which
Ill hang over the corpse. In . couple Of
minutes more this, too. had vanished, and,
wonderful as it may seem, it is a fact that
On the stone bench that had supported the
mortal remains of the ancient Kallikrates
Tor 90 many centuries there was now moth
Ing to be seen but q few handfuls of smoE-
ing white powder. The acid had utterly
destroyed the body, and even in places
eaten into the stone. Ayesha stopped
down, and taking a hanAfulo of this powder
in her grasp, threw it into the air. saying
ct the am time, In q voice Of calm solem-
nifty:
dust to dust-the past to the past-the
dead to the deadi Kallikrates is dead, and
u born again!"
The ashes floated noiselessly to the rocky
door, and we stood in awed silence and
watchedthem fall, too overcome for words.
"Now leave me- she said, ''and sleep II
70 may. Unjust watch md think, for to-
morrow night we 60 hence, and the time is
long since I trod the path that we must
follow"
Accordingly We bowed and left her.
As we passed to our own apartment, I
peeped into Jobs sleeping-place to see how
he Jared, for he had gone away just before
u interview with the murdered Ustane.
quite Frustrated by the tsrrors OF the AM
ehagger festivity. He was sleeping sound
~, good honest fellow that he was, and l
rej0ieed to think that his nerves which,
like those Of most uneducated people, were
far from strong, hal been spared the clos
ing scenes Of that dreadful day. Then we
entered our own chamber, and here at last
poor Leo, who, ever since he had looked
upon that frozen image Of his living self.
had been in q state not far removed from
s~tupefactf0n, burst out into q torrent Of
grief. Now that he was no longer in the
presence Of the dreaded She. his sense of
the awfulnessp Of all that had happened,
and moro especially ofthe wicked murder
Of Ustane, who was bound to him by ties
20 close, broke upon him like O storm, and
lashed him into an agony Of remorsc and
terror which was painful to witness. he
cured himself-he cursed tho hour when
We hedArst seen the writing on tho shcrd,
which was being so mysteriously verified.
and h(kerly. he curved his own weakness.
AySShS he dared not curse; who dared
speSka41u q such j woman, whose con.
stdausdsss t& au9hS'W VI knew vas watch.
tng us ct this very mdment
For two hours or moye. Leo and I sat
with shaken nerves aad frightened eyes,
and talked over the almost miraculous
events through which we were passing. 1t
seemed like o dream OF a fairy tale, instead
Of the solemn, sober fact. Who would
have believed that the writing on the pot.
Sherd was not only true, but that we should
live to verify its truth. and that we two
seekers should Ind her who was sought,
patiently awaiting our coming in the
tomhs OF Kori Who would have thought
that in the person OF Leo this mysterious
woman should, as she believed, discover
the being whom she awaited from century
to century, and whose former earthly hab-
itation she had till this very night pre-.
oeevedt But so It was. In the face Of all
n, had seen II was difficult for us % or
binary reasoning men to any longer doubt
lts truth, and therefore at last, with hum
bio hearts and . deep sense Of the impot-
ence Of human knowledge, and the inso!-
enceaul ~ assumption that 1onies that
which e has no experience Of tOpbe posi-
bic, We Laid ourselves down to sleep. leav-
ing our fetes in the hands Of that watching